I grew up in Riverside, California.
Violence, gangs, and a family doing everything they could to get by. That was the environment around me. And for a while, I was caught up in it too.
I've been through the streets, the county, and situations where one decision could've changed everything.
But I made a decision that my circumstances weren't going to determine who I became.
Eventually, I moved to Seattle. That decision changed the direction of my life and opened the door to building businesses.
Over the last 16 years, I've helped build and scale multimillion-dollar companies, led teams, and spoken at Microsoft, Amazon, Mayweather Boxing, and more.
But that's not what makes this work meaningful to me.
It's sitting across from founders and leaders who've built successful businesses but know there's another level they're capable of operating at.
I've been there. And I've learned that getting to that next level isn't always about another strategy, another system, or working harder.
Sometimes the biggest shift is in who you declare yourself to be as a leader, what you're willing to commit to, and the actions you take to back it up.
That's the foundation of CLEARD.
ABOUT
WILEY CORTEZ
THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND CLEARD
BUILT FOR LEADERS READY FOR WHAT'S NEXT
3
Leader Development Modules
16
Leadership Practitioners
100+
Leaders Trained
94%
Participant Satisfaction
CLEARD is built on a different premise than most leadership development work. Not that people need to find themselves, but that high-performing leaders are often running the same internal patterns that worked at one level and silently cost them at the next.
Wiley's work is about precision, not inspiration. It's about finding exactly where identity, decision-making, or leadership behavior creates drag, and removing it, not through reflection exercises or structured modules, but through direct, private work with the person.
The leaders who come through CLEARD aren't broken. They're operating at a high level, and they know something is still in the way. That's exactly who this was built for.
Where the CLEARD Leadership Framework Has Been Shared
